NHL Game Preview: Colorado Avalanche at Utah Hockey Club with Line Combinations 10/24/2024

Photo: AP // Spenser Heaps

Colorado Avalanche (3-4-0, 6 pts) at Utah Hockey Club (4-2-1, 9 pts)

Venue: Delta Center

Date: Thursday, October 24

Time: 7:00 pm MT 

TV: ESPN+ / ALT / UTAH16

Radio: 

Colorado – Altitude Sports Radio 92.5 FM / 950 AM

Utah – The KSL Sports Zone 1280 AM / 97.5 FM

DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines:

Colorado -1.5 ML -135

Utah +1.5 ML +115

O/U 6.5

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Colorado Avalanche Notes:

Cal Ritchie was reassigned to Oshawa of the OHL, in 7 games with Colorado he was -7 with 1 goal. Cale Makar leads all scorers in the NHL with 14 points on the season. Justus Annunen will make his 3rd straight start for Colorado tonight. 

Utah Hockey Club Notes:

Maverick Lamoureux will make his NHL debut tonight against the Avalanche, playing with veteran D partner Ian Cole. 

Colorado Avalanche Projected Lineup: (subject to change)

Colton-MacKinnon-Rantanen

Kovalenko-Mittelstadt-O’Connor

Wood-Kelly-Ritchie

Ivan-Steinberg-Kiviranta

Girard-Makar

Ludvig-Manson

de Haan-Malinski

Annunen

Georgiev

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Utah Hockey Club Projected Lineup (subject to change): 

Keller-Hayton-Schmaltz

McBain-Cooley-Guenther

Crouse-Kerfoot-Doan

Maccelli-Stenlund-Yamamoto

Sergachev-Kesselring

Valimaki-Cole

Kolyachonok-Bortuzzo

Vejmelka

Ingram

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Players To Watch:

Colorado Avalanche – Cale Makar leads the NHL in points with 14, half of his points have come on the powerplay (1g, 6a). Maker is averaging 24:49 TOI on the season. 

Utah Hockey Club – Clayton Keller leads Utah in points with 8 (4g, 4a) but only one point has come from the powerplay. Keller has done most of his damage scoring at 5v5. 

Injury Report:

Colorado Avalanche – 

D Devon Toews – Day To Day – Game-Time Decision

LW Artturi Lehkonen – IR (Non-Roster) – Est. return October 28

LW Jonathan Drouin – OUT – Est. return October 28

RW Valeri Nichushkin – IR (Non-Roster) – Est. return November 15

LW Gabriel Landeskog – LTIR

Utah Hockey Club –  

C Nick Bjugstad – IR 

D Sean Durzi – IR 

D John Marino – IR

Next game

Colorado Avalanche – October 27 vs. Ottawa

Utah Hockey Club – October 26 at Los Angeles

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